What are you wearing?

Ever tried to wear shoes that just did not fit? I remember as a young boy I really liked a pair of runners that I thought were super cool. Problem was that they just did not fit, while ever I wore them I had pain because they were too tight. I am sitting in my office listening to, of all things, Miles Davis play his trumpet I felt God say to me “what are you wearing, and does it fit?” I just got back from Melbourne last week, down there I experienced winter in December! I had to make sure that what I was wearing was not just fitting me but ‘fitting’ for unexpected winter season.

The Apostle Paul uses the illustration of an athlete dressed for competition:
Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)
1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Life has seasons and we can be tempted to wear an outfit from the previous season into the new season. I am constantly challenged with this regarding my parenting, my kids are no longer 5 they are big and the way we relate to each other is always changing.

Let’s dress for where we are going not where we have been. In Ephesians 4:1 Paul urges us all to walk according to where we are going not where we are. “work worthy of the calling with which you were called.”

Lets dress for favour, increase and purpose.

Isaiah 54:2 3 (NKJV)
2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.

Get ready for growth and expansion, church I think God may be saying get some ‘fat’ clothes ready for a new season’ let’s leave behind ill fitting ‘small’ and embrace ‘big’ – (Figuratively of course) big thinking, big dreaming, big believing, big expectation.

Blessings

Geoff Blight